Tyre maker Bridgestone SA has reminded motorists that incorrect tyre pressures could be costing them money and increasing their vehicle emissions. Bridgestone Public Relations Manager, Mandy Lovell, said that tyres were designed to operate in a particular range of pressures for best performance and economy. “Tyre and motor manufacturers conduct extensive research into tyre pressures [...]
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A bus careered into a ravine in central Ecuador, killing at least 38 people in the Andean nation’s worst road accident of the year, police said Monday. The public bus, linking Quito with Ecuador’s third city of Cuenca, crashed on Sunday south of the capital, plunging 100 meters (33 feet) down a hillside in the [...]
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A musician from the Afrikaans group DJ Ossewa was killed and three of his band mates injured in a car accident near Brits, North West police said on Sunday. Police spokesperson Aafje Botma said that a case of culpable homicide was being investigated after the accident happened on the N4 near Brits on Sunday morning. [...]
Two people have been injured after a side impact collision between two cars at the intersection of Smith and Aliwal Roads in Durban. It seems that as a white Jeep crossed the intersection, it collided with a Dodge Caliber, causing the Jeep to overturn, coming to rest on its side. Both of the drivers, believed [...]
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Two men are lucky to have only sustained minor injuries after their vehicle crashed through a residential wall and into a pool. The home owners explained that the pool has only recently been drained, and that if there had been water in the pool the fate of the two men could have been a lot [...]
A man has been killed and two other critically injured after a delivery van and a bakkie collided on the M41 near Umhlanga. ER24 paramedics on the scene explained that the vehicles came to rest almost 50 meters apart after the collision, making it difficult to determine which vehicle was travelling in which direction. The [...]
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A bakkie collided into the side of an Opel sedan at the corners of Ottery Road an the M5 in Cape Town. It is believed that the bakkie was transporting 5 workers when the collision occurred. The side of the Opel was badly damaged, and the woman who was seated in the passenger side of [...]
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NAAMSA MEDIA RELEASE COMMENT ON THE IMPENDING CO2 VEHICLE EMISSIONS TAX REGIME EFFECTIVE 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2010 AND REACTION TO NATIONAL TREASURY PRESS RELEASE REGARDING AN EXTENSION TO THE SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF EMISSIONS TAXATION TO INCLUDE LIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES Reacting to an announcement by National Treasury that the CO2 new vehicle tax regime, originally intended [...]
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We have recently seen several media reports about vehicle fire. Many of these are vehicles that have not been well maintained, others caught fire in horrific crashes – and some caught fire from some engine malfunction. Few vehicle owners pay much attention to these fires – but will confirm that entrapment in a burning vehicle [...]
A five month pregnant woman and a passenger have being seriously injured after a collision at the intersection of Edwin Swales and Titrion road this morning, involving an articulated truck and a light motor vehicle. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the articulated truck had come to a halt inside the Rossburgh testing [...]
